Martin Scorsese Par Martin Scorsese

In the 1960s, the photographer Philippe Doumic, who died in 2013, took innumerable portrait photos of the rising stars French of cinema: Godard, Bardot, Truffaut, Moreau, Belmondo, Deneuve - Whilst some of the pictures became emblematic of the New Wave, others remained unused. Why? A private portrait of a little-known artist.

Philippe R. Doumic - Sous son regard l'étincelle

In just ten films, Maurice Pialat painfully rose to the top of the cinema, draining into his legend a mad demand for truth as much as memorable fury to achieve it. With "L'Enfance nue", his first feature film at the age of 43, the filmmaker immediately made his mark, this "art of making things authentic", according to Chabrol. But throughout an unclassifiable filmography in the form of an autobiography, from a break-up to his fatherhood in wonder, through the agony of his mother, the filmmaker does not get rid of the feeling of being misunderstood, despite international recognition.

Sous le soleil de Pialat

Fatou Cissé accompanies her father, malien director Souleymane Cissé, through a trip down his film career, painting an intimate and poetic picture of one of Africa’s most celebrated actors.